NASA Spacecraft Discovers New Magnetic Process in Turbulent Space

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  • Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
  • Though close to home, the space immediately around Earth is full of hidden secrets and invisible processes. In a new discovery reported in the journal Nature, scientists working with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft - MMS - have uncovered a new type of magnetic event in our near-Earth environment by using an innovative technique to squeeze extra information out of the data.
    Magnetic reconnection is one of the most important processes in the space - filled with charged particles known as plasma - around Earth. This fundamental process dissipates magnetic energy and propels charged particles, both of which contribute to a dynamic space weather system that scientists want to better understand, and even someday predict, as we do terrestrial weather. Reconnection occurs when crossed magnetic field lines snap, explosively flinging away nearby particles at high speeds. The new discovery found reconnection where it has never been seen before - in turbulent plasma.
    Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2...
    Link to Nature paper: nature.com/articles/doi:10.103...
    Music credits: ‘Think Tank’ and ‘Natural Time Cycles’ by Laurent Dury from Killer Tracks
    Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
    Tai Phan (University of California, Berkeley): Lead Scientist
    James Drake (University of Maryland): Scientist
    Michael Shay (University of Delaware): Scientist
    Jonathan Eastwood (Imperial College London): Scientist
    Joy Ng (USRA): Producer
    Mara Johnson-Groh (Wyle Information Systems): Writer
    Tom Bridgman (GST): Data Visualizer
    Lisa Poje (Freelance): Lead Animator
    Josh Masters (USRA): Lead Animator
    Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator
    Brian Monroe (USRA): Animator
    Joy Ng (USRA): Animator
    Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith (TRAX International Corporation): Graphic Designer
    Colby Haggerty (University of Chicago): Visualizer
    Ashley Michini (University of Pennsylvania): Visualizer
    Tulasi Parashar (University of Delaware): Visualizer
    Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems Inc.): Technical Support
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  • @nicholaswilkowski632
    @nicholaswilkowski632 6 років тому +21

    That makes sense due to the chaotic fluid of charged particles. These charged particles are clearly moving, which means they generate a magnetic field. Now you have a large mass/ quantities of these moving at fast (relative) speeds. Pretty cool stuff.

  • @terryleebo
    @terryleebo 6 років тому +31

    It is difficult to teach so well in such a short time. They've released a video that isn't an insult to our intelligence.

    • @sudo7789
      @sudo7789 6 років тому +2

      Except it is that exactly

    • @Kimpossibility
      @Kimpossibility 4 роки тому

      But could they do the same with an American accent?

  • @victorarnault
    @victorarnault 6 років тому +28

    My god, these computer graphics are awesome!

    • @hrishik_
      @hrishik_ 6 років тому +3

      victorarnault I know right

  • @bushbob5074
    @bushbob5074 5 років тому +9

    Magnetism has always been magical for me, I wish we knew what it really was?

  • @danteregianifreitas6461
    @danteregianifreitas6461 6 років тому +26

    Just incredible how there is so much yet to be discovered

    • @extrasolar213
      @extrasolar213 4 роки тому

      dante i find it incredible that you chose to edit your comment in brief related to the genius of the content. that stated, i agree that 'thats not incredible. whats incredible is xyz' reactions do not often allow the leeway latitude or logistical leverage to be considered credible.

  • @nicholaswilkowski632
    @nicholaswilkowski632 6 років тому +3

    Very interesting, can you upload the audio on sound cloud, 144p is too much for my internet. My next question is how do fluxuations in the magnetic field affect our climate (specifically global temperatures). I really want to study that sometime

  • @MadsPeterIversen
    @MadsPeterIversen 6 років тому

    Does these kinds of magnetic reconnections have anything to do with the heliospheric current sheet/IMF and how it interacts with the Earth's magnetic field? I'm looking into what creates the auroras and know the direction of the IMF has a huge influence on the auroras.

  • @ilgainis
    @ilgainis 6 років тому +3

    Can Magnetosheath be mirror reflection 1:1 of a Sunsheath if there is one?

  • @donfindlay6138
    @donfindlay6138 5 років тому

    Nice visuals, but fails on the audiosonics. Couldn't they turn the background noise down a bit so the diction might be better heard.

  • @Lillith9008
    @Lillith9008 4 роки тому +4

    So, hypothetically, we could utilize these magnetic particles in space travel, right?

  • @shermdeazy
    @shermdeazy 4 роки тому +3

    Hence electro-magnetic universe. No dark matter but rather Aether in space causing resistance

  • @GK_Bank
    @GK_Bank 6 років тому

    Got this research very useful in aerospace study.

  • @user-raf
    @user-raf 6 років тому +1

    Спасибо.

  • @woodywiest
    @woodywiest 6 років тому +2

    Beautiful.

  • @1955geoff
    @1955geoff 6 років тому +2

    It would be interesting to see what is the relation or the reaction between magnetic waves created by the sun or all the suns and the gravitational waves that flow in the cosmos if any. Just curious.

  • @JohnJohansen2
    @JohnJohansen2 6 років тому +1

    1:11 What's supersonic speed in outer space?

  • @summitap1
    @summitap1 5 років тому

    The only thing more impressive than cramming so much complex explanation into a short yet understandable video, is the science behind the discovery.

  • @RichardVaught
    @RichardVaught 2 роки тому +1

    Does magnetic reconnection generate an opposing force?

  • @phaesiq8824
    @phaesiq8824 6 років тому +41

    I had no idea about the phenomenon of magnetic reconnection at all before this video. Pretty awesome stuff.

    • @leftaroundabout
      @leftaroundabout 6 років тому +2

      It _is_ awesome stuff! Though this “snapping rubber band” analogy is a bit exaggerated. At the basic level, reconnection is just a result of plasma having a non-perfect conductivity - only the idealised picture of perfect conductivity (ideal MHD) leads us to consider magnetic field-lines as physically stable objects in the first place, in reality they are only good as a local approximation. Reconnection is the dissolving of the magnetic topology, or, rubber bands slipping through your fingers as it were. Still causes some significant heating etc. though.

  • @circuitboardsushi
    @circuitboardsushi 6 років тому +2

    Very cool

  • @kryostazis4415
    @kryostazis4415 6 років тому +3

    they should use it to propell a spaceship fast through space
    create a manetic repulsor engine

    • @tricck8352
      @tricck8352 5 років тому

      Right now im searching the internet for anything like this.
      It just crossed my mind that if magnets have energy on their own, we could use that energy to travel fast in space.
      This would be really cool to do!

  • @AtlasReburdened
    @AtlasReburdened 6 років тому +1

    Potential source for the "oh my god particle"?

  • @hans_am_ende
    @hans_am_ende 6 років тому +1

    That is similar to the "Cluster"-mission from 1996?

  • @tuusnullorum
    @tuusnullorum 6 років тому +1

    Could it be going faster because you flew something metal through it?

  • @AscendingBliss
    @AscendingBliss 6 років тому +1

    Absolutely incredible.

  • @Tavussatwaossi
    @Tavussatwaossi 6 років тому

    At 1:10 you say that particles are "flung at supersonic speeds". Is the reference to sound velocity adequate for phenomena occurring in the empty space ? What is an order of magnitude of such a velocity ?

  • @thehoss954
    @thehoss954 6 років тому +2

    Perhaps it is a double layer?

  • @ddegn
    @ddegn 6 років тому +1

    I thought these reconnection events required a physical medium for the fields to follow. Are there enough of these particles to form continuous bands?
    I thought I was understanding how this worked on the sun but the sun has lots of physical material to use as bands.
    I'm not really expecting an answer, just voicing some of my frustration of trying to figure out how all this works.
    Thanks for the interesting video NASA Goddard.

  • @JamesCrouchX
    @JamesCrouchX 6 років тому

    Naturally adds a shield layer deflecting rays.

  • @moragmacgregor6792
    @moragmacgregor6792 6 років тому

    I’m psyched

  • @peterlang777
    @peterlang777 6 років тому

    You can make electric power from these earth sun electrical interactions long length conductors take in this energy as geomagnetic currents

  • @DaveAwesome
    @DaveAwesome 6 років тому +11

    I would like to see the magnetic reconstruction video a screensaver. Question for you NASA, I've seen a lot of papers lately saying that Mars's magnetic field is very weak and thus the planet is extremely radioactive and probably a bad target for colonization. Does Venus have a stronger magnetic field and is it less Radioactive? If Europa is really the best decision to colonize what kind of rover would you plan to scope that planet out? Are you worried about radioactive octopus on the planet from that sci-fi movie? (Joke)

    • @phaesiq8824
      @phaesiq8824 6 років тому +3

      Dave Awesome Check out the europa mission proposal. Search 'Europa heat probe' and I am sure a video shows up. Don't know their current ideas but they wanted to send an autonomous rover contained in a heated probe which would melt itself into the Icy layer of Europa and release the autononous vehicle once it hits the subsurface ocean.

    • @Ridgwaycer
      @Ridgwaycer 6 років тому +2

      Venus's magnetic field is much weaker than the Earths. It provides basically no protection from solar wind particles.

    • @DaveAwesome
      @DaveAwesome 6 років тому

      Will Pack I haven't used winamp in years!! I loved it though.

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 6 років тому +2

      The guy from Goddard who did some of this visualization was interviewed by Fraser Cain this same day. The Universe Today site (Fraser's) will have the link to the UA-cam video as I don't remember which of the several channels he has that it was on.

    • @shruggzdastr8-facedclown
      @shruggzdastr8-facedclown 6 років тому +2

      Dave Awesome: Mars' magnetosphere is practically nonexistent, its core having effectively shut down within its first billion years -- this being a consequence of its being so less-massive a planetary body than Earth (it's hypothesized that Jupiter's to blame for the diminutive stature of Mars, that Jupiter's enormous gravitational influence robbed Mars of rocky planetary building materials during and after the accretion period of the early solar syste). Once Mars lost its magnetosphere, it then over millennia of time lost its hydrosphere (oceans) and, due to its weak gravity, its atmosphere which vented into space and left it with incredibly thin atmosphere that it has now in the present-day. This adds another daunting challenge to the wild idea of terraforming Mars in that anything done to Mars' atmosphere to make it eventually breathable will be undone by its weak gravity being unable to hold it in place in perpetuity -- unless we can figure out how to jump-start its magnetosphere.

  • @wisedupearly3998
    @wisedupearly3998 6 років тому +2

    Magnetic reconnection.
    Impulse force needed for deep space exploration?

    • @tricck8352
      @tricck8352 5 років тому

      YESSSS ! Double yes !

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 3 роки тому

    Amazing 👍

  • @liukang85
    @liukang85 6 років тому +2

    1:30 it's a roach!

  • @justincarnes1553
    @justincarnes1553 6 років тому +1

    And use those particles to generate energy

  • @Nokiaapplekapardada
    @Nokiaapplekapardada 5 років тому

    Brilliant

  •  3 роки тому

    We need more about these events of flux transfer events.

  • @DAC087
    @DAC087 6 років тому +1

    Mind blown

  • @user78405
    @user78405 6 років тому

    same happening through naked eye on gas giants ..you see the effect with gas, and particule charge you can hear it through mic to what gas giant sound like

  • @richtmason3792
    @richtmason3792 2 роки тому

    is this energy useable by spacecraft?

  • @user-tr5wf6ke5k
    @user-tr5wf6ke5k 6 років тому

    How about Pluto?

  • @o1ecypher
    @o1ecypher 4 роки тому

    the last plasma apocalypse ripped this place up real bad like world splitting, are we ready for the next,

  • @GerblerM
    @GerblerM 6 років тому +1

    1:10 "as a result, particles in the region are flung at supersonic speeds"
    Why are we measuring stuff in terms of sound when we're talking about electromagnetic radiation?? I mean I guess it's technically right, but that just seems a little like measuring a marathon in millimetres. I'm probably just missing something

  • @sciencecompliance235
    @sciencecompliance235 6 років тому

    Uhh... supersonic?! Through what medium?

  • @thomasfholland
    @thomasfholland 6 років тому +3

    Excellent presentation of these new findings.

  • @kensolch9885
    @kensolch9885 6 років тому

    WOULD BE GREAT IF RECORDING VOLUME WAS 5 TIMES HIGHER.

  • @fatarsemonkey
    @fatarsemonkey 6 років тому +2

    But there really isn't any lines, they are just like topographical contour lines on a map, they are just for image sake to give incremental information like elevation. There isn't really any lines connecting or reconnecting, that is just someones imagination.

  • @prawny12009
    @prawny12009 4 роки тому

    is this turbulent plasma what scientists of yesteryear would have called either?

  • @kersjous
    @kersjous 6 років тому

    That last bit of animation (zooming out from "solar system") doesn't belong on science channel.

  • @Payne2view
    @Payne2view 6 років тому

    I'm sure it was called "recombination" rather than "reconnection" when I learned about this.

    • @ephemera2
      @ephemera2 4 роки тому

      mandela effect lol

  • @tonypim3737
    @tonypim3737 5 років тому

    ผู้เชี่ยวชาญ​ครับผมสงสัยว่าในอวกาศ​เราเอาแม่เหล็กจะดูดเอาอะตอมธาตุเหล็กในอวกาศ​ได้หรือเปล่าครับผมสงสัยจังครับ

  • @hollydepthexplain583
    @hollydepthexplain583 4 роки тому +1

    Hello NASA space king 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👑👑👑👑

  • @demondrummer1614
    @demondrummer1614 5 років тому

    Questions-
    Do earths flux tubes convey within the planet?
    If so when using the Australian arrays split fields have you timed the conveyor speed by taking sequenced / timed snapshots of the earths flux tubes?
    &, Do the flux tubes 'accelerate' when they are bombarded by solar radiation?
    Have you attempted live recordings of the earths flux tubes from satellites yet?
    Or is this new magnetic soup mesh blocking it (hence the discovery)?
    Noise sorry-

  • @phoule76
    @phoule76 6 років тому

    an MMS is yet another thing NASA has sent that I never will.

  • @celemthegreenlion8059
    @celemthegreenlion8059 2 роки тому +1

    yea thanks but I figured that out in 2012

  • @Arteri6
    @Arteri6 6 років тому

    What about the magnetosphere of the sun?

  • @pauldannelachica3742
    @pauldannelachica3742 6 років тому

    👍 nice. Earth shield

  • @MarriageSupper06
    @MarriageSupper06 4 роки тому

    Jupiter looks like plasma vortexes

  • @countrycorndog
    @countrycorndog 5 років тому +1

    Wow, if you treat Earth as an eye, it looks alot like how our eyes perceive light 😮

    • @tricck8352
      @tricck8352 5 років тому

      What ? Who ? When ? Wtf

  • @johnniecharlton348
    @johnniecharlton348 6 років тому

    No. The worlds ground positioning system has been established from the late 1800s.

  • @Lilrob06
    @Lilrob06 3 роки тому

    what if you could somehow harness and ride this energy in a space craft. mabye there are space portals

  • @mahi-kp3fq
    @mahi-kp3fq 2 роки тому

    ماذا لو صعقنا البحار بالكهرباء لازالة الغلاف المغناطيسي ?

  • @catwillow1723
    @catwillow1723 6 років тому

    Could this be causing trumpet noises?

    • @prawny12009
      @prawny12009 4 роки тому

      and the trumpets they go, dat dat dadda dadda dat dat

  • @sebastienmarion9570
    @sebastienmarion9570 6 років тому

    could it be a way to connect the quantum theory with relativity theory?

    • @rootstriker1618
      @rootstriker1618 5 років тому

      no

    • @tricck8352
      @tricck8352 5 років тому

      There are two very different things.
      Quantum is subatomic scale, relativity is cosmic scale.
      They don't kiss.

  • @saltandpepperwithyogita5885
    @saltandpepperwithyogita5885 4 роки тому

    Please make videoes in hindi

  • @newyorkker
    @newyorkker 6 років тому

    Gravity? I thought it was space-time bending due to earth mass.

  • @sithavong6112
    @sithavong6112 6 років тому

    Wow

  • @andrewhallin
    @andrewhallin 6 років тому +1

    I see a clue of how all the water got here. Dusty snowball comets are out. Turn back the clock and take what we know. Hydrogen coming from the sun, oxygen ejected into space from impacts and now the energy needed to fuse it into water. Now how would it condense and fall back to Earth? Has anyone checked orbital space for H2O molecules? Maybe I'm just crazy.

  • @C86913
    @C86913 6 років тому

    Now humans are on a path to new frontiers. Congratulations.

  • @johnwauters8576
    @johnwauters8576 Рік тому +2

    I will teach starx harness power

  • @sam4malaysia
    @sam4malaysia 6 років тому

    Maybe this is why earth will stop spinning.

  • @kryostazis4415
    @kryostazis4415 6 років тому

    finding a force means using a force

  • @PopulistDavid05401
    @PopulistDavid05401 4 роки тому

    Spheretext

  • @andielines
    @andielines 6 років тому

    So many people with so much to lose.

  • @MouseSF
    @MouseSF 6 років тому

    It would seem to me that positing 'energy transfer' via (imaginary) magnetic field lines through a turbulent ionized plasma is a very convoluted way of saying you have detected electrical current flow in space. Just sayin'.

    • @prawny12009
      @prawny12009 4 роки тому

      we must travel through the aether

  • @onehitpick9758
    @onehitpick9758 6 років тому

    Oh great... the electric universe guys are going to go crazy with this, again, pointing out how they knew it all along and how in the dark mainstream is/has been. Until know, the tightness and level of this energy has been completely unseen -- "dark" almost. We would need to add this to our models and rework them, but first we need to know what it looks like in more than just one point in outer space.

  • @Ven3ta
    @Ven3ta 4 роки тому

    If I found a portal I would’ve went In it without hesitation any place could be better than here

  • @SyBe49
    @SyBe49 6 років тому

    What's next? "Space miles"? 🤦‍♂️

  • @amandaosvaldo953
    @amandaosvaldo953 6 років тому

    Crazy °.°

  • @nickkrikorian5909
    @nickkrikorian5909 3 роки тому

    bermuda triangle is a portal

  • @marvelinfrastructure1943
    @marvelinfrastructure1943 6 років тому

    but without gravity out univers

  • @strictlyeducationalmagick
    @strictlyeducationalmagick 6 років тому +3

    The new science resembles the ancient Alchemy.

    • @bigdickpornsuperstar
      @bigdickpornsuperstar 6 років тому +1

      The new technologies and knowledge, sure, but the process of science, the "Scientific Method", remains relatively unchanged from the time of Aristotle and certainly since being codified and promoted by Roger Bacon in the 13th century.

    • @thersten
      @thersten 6 років тому

      you're pretty old!

  • @goosecouple
    @goosecouple 6 років тому +1

    Modern people feel amazed by the ancient people's creation of the Pyramids in Egypt; but they refused to be amazed by the creator of the universe.

    • @prawny12009
      @prawny12009 4 роки тому

      prove it exists and i will be amazed

  • @ScottMana
    @ScottMana 6 років тому +2

    It turns out that electromagnetic activity is so dominant it will force a new universal physics model. Magnetic reconnection was an effort to stop this from happening by patching the old model.

    • @fatarsemonkey
      @fatarsemonkey 6 років тому

      Exactly.

    • @ScottMana
      @ScottMana 6 років тому

      Astral Traveler and ... you think reconnection works well how? What do you think a field line is? The spin itself is a variable that is irrelevant to the electric and magnetic state even when you run a magnetic field over an electric current, the conductor temp will increase as it forces greater resistance by inducing faster atomic spin rates, however
      how is any of this connected to reconnection?

    • @ScottMana
      @ScottMana 6 років тому

      Astral Traveler Gatcha, just for something to consider, what if they represent layered charge density and are similar to how a group of people trying to pass through a larger group would form orderly lines in the same direction to reduce collisions. Electrons have already been observed to have layers, shells or envelopes. What if you are looking a huge electron? I mean you have to shoot electricity through it to create it. Reconnection would be as silly as waves that form on the ocean or sandy dessert at 90 degrees to the wind being said to "reconnect". Just something to consider.

  • @ryanhewett1663
    @ryanhewett1663 2 роки тому +1

    NASA !@! NASA!!!!!!! We CAN TRANSFER DATA THROUGH PLASMA.

    • @ryanhewett1663
      @ryanhewett1663 2 роки тому

      NOT BLOOD PLASMA. I AM TALKING ABOUT LIGHT PLASMA. WORK THROUGH IT

  • @byGDur
    @byGDur 6 років тому

    sweet

  • @SGALAXIA
    @SGALAXIA 6 років тому

    Turbulent Plasma = Turbulent Juice???

  • @balcky666
    @balcky666 6 років тому +4

    finaly :)

  • @hankseda
    @hankseda 6 років тому

    Chaos theory at work.

  • @jenniferhoag7440
    @jenniferhoag7440 3 роки тому

    Quantum mechanics in a nutshell

  • @fermibubbles9375
    @fermibubbles9375 4 роки тому

    woahhh

  • @rubensantos557
    @rubensantos557 6 років тому +1

    i love it when people don't have a clue about what they "believe" and then go rampanging on "no, the theory i believe more is the one that is correct" "no no no, it is impossible for that theory to exist because mine is better" you all look like the superstitious folk that constantly battle over something that they do not see or prove or even know about! we know so little about the universe and yet you all act like you have been everywhere on it

  • @Dexter101x
    @Dexter101x 6 років тому

    If this is true, can we at least see the real thing rather than animations?

    • @Dexter101x
      @Dexter101x 6 років тому

      ytmoog then this proves the video is fake

    • @thenewgen1012
      @thenewgen1012 6 років тому +1

      plezx29 ???

  • @Randall_Genistrovia
    @Randall_Genistrovia 6 років тому

    HEH HEH......
    Sheath

  • @handleismyhandle
    @handleismyhandle 4 роки тому

    Is it possible that all matter when energized by an external quantum force is jostled along through 'time' by a rapid oscillation between a true fourth dimensional plasma state and then de-energized back to 'ordinary matter'? Is it accepted as fact that what is viewed as changes in the 'state' of matter are actually a dimensional transition from solid (1d), liquid (2d; covering a flat plane), and gas (3d; filling a volume)? In this case, can a true plasma ever actually be observed, or are we seeing a rapid phase oscillation when looking at something like a star?

    • @handleismyhandle
      @handleismyhandle 4 роки тому

      For that matter, I wonder if there are perhaps infinite dimensional states that we are for whatever reason of happenstance incapable of 'seeing' because we are bound to this particular energy region.

  • @DieFoe
    @DieFoe 4 роки тому

    Why are all these channels calling energy discharges particles? So dumb...

  • @TPWW3CAP
    @TPWW3CAP 3 роки тому

    Aum mane padme hum l

  • @cjsamtab7
    @cjsamtab7 4 роки тому

    Mankind studied & learned this much about how fragile & opportunistic our existence on Earth is, but aren't doing anything about Humankind's Fragmented Nature which will inevitably spell the end of Mankind on Earth, even before these studied changes will decimate all living things on this planet of ours, which, we are still destroying all for MONEY & POWER. Doesn't this make us, Primitive instead?

  • @tigeruby
    @tigeruby 6 років тому +36

    it would be nice if this video used kilometers instead of miles

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 6 років тому +5

      Do you spend the rest of your day trolling South Asian sites over their use of crore and lakh?

    • @Hysteria117
      @Hysteria117 6 років тому +7

      Actually, NASA had adopting international metric system since 2007. Not realy suprising since only USA and 2 other country still using the american metrics. Not very important for everyday stuff but when you have a worldwide community of scientists,it's important to have the same system metrics who can greatly reduce stupid errors (mars orbiter for exemple)

    • @Dexter101x
      @Dexter101x 6 років тому +3

      Why? Most English speaking countries use miles and not kilometers

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 6 років тому

      +Djinn NASA was using SI as a whole in 1962 or so. US Customary (USC) had been systematized to metric in the 1870s or so. The only reason that USC was used so late in industry was because of slow adoption by aerospace companies not needing to switch units since units don't define "scienceness". They only facilitate intercommunication between parties. After the Mars Polar Lander catastrophe, the US companies were constrained to align their design and operational units with SI.

    • @cuscof2
      @cuscof2 6 років тому +1

      +plezx29
      Actually only the US, Myanmar and Liberia still use miles.
      +tigeruby
      NASA unfortunately relies on the US Congress for funding, which is mostly made up of lawyers who aren't smart enough to do the conversion and would feel offended if they thought NASA was talking down to them. All their internal documentation uses metric units.